So I was having a discussion with Umi about ideas for the contest, and I think I may do a "Pyro is Fucking Nuts" pack. 2 hats. 1 weapon.
Fire Extinguisher as a replacement for a melee weapon.
Deals damage with M1, and extinguishes team-mates with M2.
1) I saw someone's already doing a Fire Extinguisher as part of a Fire Safety theme.
2) It's not up to contributors what Valve does with Contributions. They can make suggestions, but Valve doesn't have to listen
at all. If you were to include new functions (something that's not supposed to be part of the contest), you'd probably have to make your own animations, as I highly doubt Valve would want to make animations for people.
Right now I'm thinking of my theme being about the Pyro "borrowing" (because borrowing can refer to legit being given things or stealing them, borrowing without asking (my original idea was to have the Pyro be stealing things from the Engy, but Umiman made a good argument for the Pyro to have the Engy give him/her things. So I'm trying to mix the two, and have it vague as to whether the Pyro stole things or was given things by the Engy and have it be vague like the Pyro's gender)) things from the Engy. Don't have a name or phrase for it yet though.
[EDIT:] Agh! Damn it! Stuff for the contest has to be 100% original, meaning no Valve models at all. I'm still going to make my Sentry-headed Flamethrower, I'll just probably put it off.